A Little of This; A Little of That Quiz

Answer: Jackie Wilson

Rita Coolidge was born in Lafayette, Tennessee. She graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High in Jacksonville, Florida in 1963. Later, she attended Florida State University.

Jackie's original song was released on an album by the same name, "Higher and Higher". Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. was known familiarly as "Mr. Excitement", and was important as a musician who helped in the change-over of rhythm and blues into soul.

First verse of "Your Love Is Lifting Me Higher":

"Your love keeps lifting me higher
Than I've ever been lifted before
So keep it up, quench my desire
And I'll be at your side forever more".

Answer: Bobby Vee

Bobby Velline's (Vee's) career began in the most infamous of rock and roll music tragedies.

On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper were killed in an airplane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. The next show on their tour was scheduled for Moorhead, Minnesota.

Bobby, who was only a 15-year old youngster at the time, teamed up with a band of schoolmates called "The Shadows", as they volunteered for the job of filling in for Buddy Holly at Moorhead. This tragic beginning eventually led to Bobby Vee's successful career.

Partial lyrics from the song:

"They say that you're a runaround lover
Though you say it isn't so
But if you put me down for another
I'll know, believe me, I'll know

'Cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see if you are true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes."

Answer: Four Jacks and a Jill

The song's prophetic lyrics are from 1968. This is a song that actually charted in the USA at number eight. It is a poignant observation on apartheid. The story of Master Jack, according to the female who is featured as the lead singer, Glenys Lynne Mynott, was posted on her 2010 website as follows:

"In certain mines the foreman is called Master Jack, and the
song tells the story of a labourer who works diligently for this master for years and years and then decides to go out on his own and exercise his desires and aspirations as an individual to be something other than a labourer."

The lyrics expressed the thoughts of a young Afrikaner, who was questioning the policies of apartheid, even at this early time of the 1960s.

Song lyrics:

"I saw right through the way you started teachin' me now
So someday soon you could get to use me somehow
I thank you very much and though you've been very kind
But I'd better move along before you change my mind

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack
You know how I feel as if I'll never come back
It's a very strange world and I thank you, Master Jack

You taught me all the things the way you'd like them to be
But I'd like to see if other people agree
It's all very int'resting the way you disguise
But I'd like to see the world through my own eyes..."

Answer: Paul Revere and the Raiders

This song was actually an ANTI-drug song. Don't believe me? Just read the following lyrics...

"Well you thought you found your answer
On that magic carpet ride last night
When you wake up in the morning
The world still gets you uptight

Kicks just keep getting harder to find?
And all your kicks ain't bringing you peace of mind
Before you find out it's too late girl
You better get straight"

Answer: The Chessmen

After the Chessmen, Terry began performing with Susan Pesklevits--later Susan Jacks after marriage. They were originally a part of the Poppy Family and worked on "Seasons in the Sun" shortly before their marriage ended. The Beach Boys, whom they had begun to record the song with, decided not to finish the song. Terry and Susan recorded it themselves, releasing it under Terry's name.

"Goodbye, Michelle, my little one,
You gave me love and helped me find the sun,
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground;
Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air,
With the flowers everywhere,
I wish that we could both be there!"

(The song was originally a French tune, and that version was filled with sarcasm about a cheating wife.)

Answer: Frank Sinatra

This feel-good single hit was a promotional recording used in JFK's 1960 presidential campaign and was contributed by his friend, Frank Sinatra, on the 1961 album "All the Way".

Original partial lyrics AND campaign lyrics below:

"Next time you're found, with your chin on the ground
There a lot to be learned, so look around
Just what makes that little old ant
Think he'll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can't
Move a rubber tree plant
But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes
He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes"

Vs.

"Everyone is voting for Jack
'Cause he's got what all the rest lack
Everyone wants to back Jack
Jack is on the right track
'Cause he's got high hopes, high hopes
1960's the year for his high hopes
So come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy
And we'll come out on top
Whoops there goes the opposition ker-
Whoops there goes the opposition ker-
Whoops there goes the opposition ker-plop"

The flip-side contained the song, "All the Way", which featured the same band and chorus, but not Frank. A sample of the lyrics:

"Both sides of the Mason-Dixon
All the voters shout,
Our Jack can beat Mr. Nixon
Mr. Nixon better look out."

Answer: Porter Wagoner

The song was written by Claude "Curly" Putman.

Porter Wagoner, ("Mr. Grand Ole Opry"), showcased Dolly Parton on his television program when she was young. They were a well-known duet throughout the late '60s and early '70s. He had 81 singles to his credit and became a member of the country Music Hall of Fame.

Lyrics from "Green, Green Grass of Home":

"The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to greet me are my mamma and my poppa
Down the road I look,
and there runs Mary
Hair of gold, lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Yes, they'll all come to meet me
Arms a-reachin', smilin' sweetly
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home"

Answer: Roger Miller

Roger Miller grew up in Oklahoma, but entered the music scene in Nashville. He started his professional career as a songwriter in the late 1950s, where he wrote "Billy Bayou" and "Home" for Jim Reeves and "Invitation to the Blues" for Ray Price.

Some of his other hits include "My Uncle Used to Love Me, But She Died", "King of the Road", and "Dang Me".

Song lyrics:

"England swings like a pendulum do,
Bobbies on bicycles, two by two;
Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben,
The rosy red cheeks of the little children.

Now, if you huff and puff and you finally save enough
Money up to take your family on a trip across the sea,
Take a tip before you take your trip; let me tell you where to go,
Go to England, Oh.."

Answer: Atlanta, Georgia

Joe South, or Joseph Alfred Souter, was from Atlanta. He started a musical career with the local National Recording Corporation. Initially, he acted as an in-house guitarist with Ray Stevens and Jerry Reed.

Answer: Lee Marvin

Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin did their own singing in this 1969 Western musical. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band helped in singing the song "Hand Me Down That Can o' Beans".